Images

USGS scientist holding an adult banded Piping Plover on Lake Sakakawea, North Dakota

Adult American White Pelican on Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge, North Dakota

A pair of American avocets wading in a saline lake in the Great Basin. Many bird species rely on food resources found in saline lakes, such as brine shrimp and brine flies.

Black-footed albatross with chick, nesting black-footed albatrosses are especially vulnerable to sea-level rise and sudden flooding on low-lying islands.

Location: Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge

Capturing juvenile bull trout by electroshocking Logging Creek and then transporting them in a backpack up the trail to Grace Lake.

Chesapeake Bay and surroundings, mosaic of 5 Landsat images taken in October and November 2014.

An American bullfrog along the Yellowstone River near Billings, MT.

Seining a heavily bullfrog populated side channel at Two Moon County Park in Billings, MT.

USGS biologists surveying for bullfrogs at Two Moon Park, Billings, MT.

Male Laysan duck (Anas Laysanensis) at Midway Atoll, Hawai‘i

Sediment core retrieval from Lake Erie onboard the RV Lake Guardian on Lake Erie, Michigan.

Researchers with the University of Wyoming and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department transport a captured a mule deer in the Wyoming Range of Wyoming. The deer was fitted with a GPS tracking and its body fat was assesssed and other biolgogical samples taken before release. 

USGS Hydrologist Chris Magirl captures image of the Elwha River flooding for the first time following dam removal. This location is just downstream of the former Elwha Dam which used to stand at the area near the top of the photograph.

The Kalispel Tribe in northeastern Washington is located along the Pend Oreille River, home to culturally important, cold-water fish, such as bull trout and cutthroat trout.

Ticks spread the widest variety of diseases that are harmful to humans, including Lyme disease. This image shows a large, engorged female blacklegged tick, or deer tick (species Ixodes scapularis).

This is the backend of a Lipotriches (Plain Sweat Bee) collected in Australia. This is one of the bees in which the males are known to form sleeping aggregations – small groups to dozens of individuals clustering together on the same twig late in the afternoon and remaining there until after dawn.

Ticks spread the widest variety of diseases that are harmful to humans, including Lyme disease. This is an image of blacklegged ticks, or deer ticks.

A Black-capped Chickadee with an upper beak slightly longer than the lower beak. Avian keratin disorder (AKD) is a disease characterized by debilitating beak overgrowth and other abnormalities of keratinized tissues. Affected birds have difficulty feeding and preening and may suffer high rates of mortality.

A Black-capped Chickadee with a normal beak captured at an Anchorage banding station.

An endangered black-footed ferret is released on private land in Arizona as part of a collaborative species recovery effort.